I'm too lazy too at individual teams for next season, so see how many this will actually affect.

So perhaps most of the buyouts will be simply to jettison the financial obligation and not necessarily for cap compliance.(Unless buyouts can only happen for compliance? That's the part I haven't yet grokked.)

- Will there be a rule prohibiting teams from buying a player out and then resigning him to a smaller deal? I know this was mentioned earlier in this thread (for example: buy out Sid and then resign him to a 1 mil./yr. deal. He gets his cash, we get the cap space). As much as I'd like to take advantage of this, I seriously hope the NHL prevents this from taking place.

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- Will there be a rule prohibiting teams from buying a player out and then resigning him to a smaller deal? I know this was mentioned earlier in this thread (for example: buy out Sid and then resign him to a 1 mil./yr. deal. He gets his cash, we get the cap space). As much as I'd like to take advantage of this, I seriously hope the NHL prevents this from taking place.

Owners got what they wanted* 50% split with Hockey Related Revenue (HRR)* Contract limits to 7-years for free agents signing with another team, 8-year limit if player resigns with existing team.* Contract variance cannot exceed 35% from year to year or 50% over any two year period of the deal.* Minimum salary will be $525,000 to start this season, reaches $750k by year 10.

Players got what they wanted* Pension* Players will receive $300 million in deferred “make-whole” payments* ‘13-14 salary cap max will be $64.3 million, salary floor sticks to $44 million* Salary arbitration rights change, teams can only walk away if award $3.5 million or higher.* Two buyouts can be used prior to ‘14-15 season, will cost 2/3 of deal, won’t apply to team salary cap, will apply to players’ share of HRR.* Significant increase in revenue sharing to $200 million per year* Players on 1-way deal in AHL will have salary applied to NHL cap over $375,000 – I call this the Wade Redden rule.

It shouldn't have needed to take this long.

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Dickie Dunn wrote:I personally cannot wait for Bettman to fix the draft lottery every year so we can watch the Penguins stockpile number one pick after number one pick.

Are all teams in the lottery and not just the bottom 10? I mean, I wouldn't complain if the pens won the lottery, but it would be pretty lame if the SC winning team won the lottery and got "the next one" instead of a team that legitimately needs them.

Owners won, you locked out the players, the first offer is a joke of a deal, then you make it look like you gave up so much to get a deal done. Ok the pension... you have to give them something. There are so many restrictions on the players from the first deal to what is in place now, how can you a owner not like what you got.

The league is alot healither. From the players last CBA deal to this CBA deal, the onwers didn't lose much, but they laid down alot more restirctions on the players. This could be bad though, the players might try to take their teams to the bank more now than ever. No one will get a 100 million dollar deal now.

Dickie Dunn wrote:I personally cannot wait for Bettman to fix the draft lottery every year so we can watch the Penguins stockpile number one pick after number one pick.

Are all teams in the lottery and not just the bottom 10? I mean, I wouldn't complain if the pens won the lottery, but it would be pretty lame if the SC winning team won the lottery and got "the next one" instead of a team that legitimately needs them.

As per old CBA, all non-playoff teams are in a weighted lottery. No team can move more than four spots. Ex.: 7th worst team can move to #3, but worst team retains #1 pick. Odds are very much against anyone besides worst or second worst getting the #1 selection.

mikey287 wrote:As per old CBA, all non-playoff teams are in a weighted lottery. No team can move more than four spots. Ex.: 7th worst team can move to #3, but worst team retains #1 pick. Odds are very much against anyone besides worst or second worst getting the #1 selection.

Ok, so then at least only non-playoff teams could win the lottery under this new rule. Not so bad.

Dickie Dunn wrote:I personally cannot wait for Bettman to fix the draft lottery every year so we can watch the Penguins stockpile number one pick after number one pick.

Are all teams in the lottery and not just the bottom 10? I mean, I wouldn't complain if the pens won the lottery, but it would be pretty lame if the SC winning team won the lottery and got "the next one" instead of a team that legitimately needs them.

As per old CBA, all non-playoff teams are in a weighted lottery. No team can move more than four spots. Ex.: 7th worst team can move to #3, but worst team retains #1 pick. Odds are very much against anyone besides worst or second worst getting the #1 selection.